The Swiss President, Johann Schneider-Ammann, stressed on Monday that Switzerland should participate in a Free Trade agreement with the UK post-Brexit. He suggested that the UK could either rejoin EFTA (the European Free Trade Association) which it left when it joined the EU in the 1970s, or a trade deal could be signed between EFTA and the UK, without formal membership.
EFTA membership would give the UK access to the European Single Market.
Britain was a founder member of EFTA in 1960. Current members are Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
Re-entering EFTA could make complicate negotiations with the EU obsolete for GB, because trade rules between EFTA and EU already exist.
Please call Theresa May and tell her this.
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Exactly. Personally I am sorry the UK ever left EFTA for the EEC/EU, but that is ancient history.
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